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EP1385739B1
EP1385739B1 EP02774080A EP02774080A EP1385739B1 EP 1385739 B1 EP1385739 B1 EP 1385739B1 EP 02774080 A EP02774080 A EP 02774080A EP 02774080 A EP02774080 A EP 02774080A EP 1385739 B1 EP1385739 B1 EP 1385739B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64C—AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS
    • B64C31/00—Aircraft intended to be sustained without power plant; Powered hang-glider-type aircraft; Microlight-type aircraft
    • B64C31/06—Kites
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63H—MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING
    • B63H8/00—Sail or rigging arrangements specially adapted for water sports boards, e.g. for windsurfing or kitesurfing
    • B63H8/10—Kite-sails; Kite-wings; Control thereof; Safety means therefor
    • B63H8/12—Kites with inflatable closed compartments
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    • B64—AIRCRAFT; AVIATION; COSMONAUTICS
    • B64C—AEROPLANES; HELICOPTERS
    • B64C31/00—Aircraft intended to be sustained without power plant; Powered hang-glider-type aircraft; Microlight-type aircraft
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    • B64C2031/065—Kites of inflatable wing type

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  • Arch style traction kites which are defined below, are proving to be very successful for kite traction applications, and especially, but not only, for activities that are water based such as kite boarding and kite sailing.
  • the current invention relates to improvements in arch style traction kite design.
  • the invention may however find application in other kite, and similar aerodynamic, designs and such are not excluded from the scope and spirit of the invention.
  • Angle of Attack is the angle between the chord line of any airfoil profile and the apparent wind.
  • overall angle of attack of the kite is usually taken to be the angle between the apparent wind and the average chord line of airfoils in the centre span section.
  • Centre of Pressure (also a term from aerodynamics) is the point at which all the aerodynamic forces generated by an airfoil section can be considered as acting.
  • the centre of pressure while the kite is flying, will generally lie between 10% and 20% of chord but in its extreme range can be anywhere between the leading edge and 50% chord.
  • the position of the centre of pressure point is a function of angle of attack generally moving further back from the leading edge as angle of attack increases except at very low angles of attack.
  • chord line in this document the chord line is a line drawn through the airfoil section from leading edge to trailing edge.
  • a chord line is show by numeral 7 in Figure 1 .
  • Lift to Drag ratio commonly shortened to L/D, this an aerodynamic term and with respect to traction kites is the ratio of the lift forces generated by a kite to the drag force penalty incurred in generating this lift at a given wind speed.
  • L/D is the primary definition of a kite's aerodynamic efficiency
  • Load line for an arch style traction kite the line from tip to tip passing through the centre of pressure of all the sections that make up the kite is called the load line.
  • the load line position will change with changing angle of attack, generally shifting further from the kite's leading edge at every section as the kite's angle of attack increases.
  • the load line lies on a plane defined by the kite's flying lines where they enter the kite summed as vectors when there are more than two flying lines and approximately at right angles to the wind direction. It can deviate from this plane only to the extent that the kite's structure has sufficient rigidity, particularly torsionally, to support local variations.
  • the load line is a concept not an actual physical feature.
  • the load line is indicated by numeral 6 in Figures 4 , 7 and 8 .
  • Luffing is the tendency for a kite's angle of attack to become suddenly negative. Occurring usually in turbulent winds or when overflying, in extreme cases luffing will cause a traction kite to fall from the sky uncontrollably.
  • Overflying in turbulent winds or when the flier executes extreme manoeuvres such as jumping it is possible for traction kites to momentarily fly upwind from the flier. Overflying is common enough in traction kiting experience that a kite's inherent ability to recover from this situation has become an important measure of its performance.
  • Pull control for traction kites with more than two lines the flier can change the amount of pull generated at any time by using the extra line(s) to change the kite's angle of attack which in turn influences the amount of lift it generates.
  • Power control and “sheeting” have the same or a similar meaning to pull control with respect to traction kites.
  • Stalling is where a kite's angle of attack relative to the apparent wind increases until an angle is reached at which any further increase will cause the total lift being generated by the kite to decrease rather than increase further. This is called the kite's stall angle.
  • Stall angles can be defined similarly for each individual part of a kite.
  • the minimum apparent wind speed at which a kite can generate sufficient lift to support its own weight and that of the flying lines is the kite's stall speed.
  • traction kites have a low stalling speed and can recover from stalls with minimum increase in the apparent wind.
  • Traction kites that are more resistant to luffing in turbulent wind and that will accept more overflying without luffing or inverting offer users greater security and are therefore more sought after.
  • Pull control also called sheeting or power control.
  • L/D is the determinant of upwind ability and, for kite boarder's, a major contributor to potential jump height and hang time.
  • kite performance characteristics is not complete but covers most of the major user requirements in so far as they are relevant to the current invention.
  • users also want kites that are powerful for their size, robust, affordable, of attractive appearance, can be launched and retrieved easily and, in the case of water based activities, are relaunchable from water.
  • Traction kites are defined as steerable kites made to be flown by one person that are used to provide motive force. Typical applications for traction kites include skiing, kite buggying, kite sailing, kite boarding and recreational users who fly such kites on beaches and parks for sensations of power and control. To provide steering and other control movements traction kites have two or more lines, although either two lines or four lines is currently more common.
  • a single line kite can be a traction kite
  • control movements to effect steering are transmitted to the kite other than by the operator changing the relative lengths of multiple flying lines.
  • An example is a single line kite that is steerable via kite mounted radio-controlled servos. Being steerable this is also a traction kite.
  • traction kites will be assumed to include this special group of single line kites without further specific reference.
  • Arch style traction kites are traction kites that also have three other distinguishing characteristics as depicted in Figures 2 and 3 . These are:
  • spanwise structural elements are: ram air inflation as used in ram air inflated arch style traction kites, pneumatic leading edge tubes used in the WipiKa type of arch style traction kite, and flexible leading edge rods as used in the FlexiFoil type of arch style traction kites.
  • Figure 2 shows the profile of the kite at right angles to the apparent wind direction.
  • the profile is an arch.
  • the profile is considered as comprising three sections. A center span area A and shoulder areas B and C.
  • the kite can have two or more flying lines that are connected to the flier or boat or buggy or other craft.
  • the kite illustrated in Figure 2 has four flying lines, two front lines 1a, 1 b and two rear or brake lines 2a, 2b connected at either corner of wing tips 5a and 5b.
  • Figure 3 illustrates a side view of the arch style kite in Figure 2 .
  • Arrow 1 indicates the wind direction.
  • Front line 1 b is attached at the point where leading edge 3 meets wing tip 5b and brake line 2b is attached at the point where trailing edge 4 meets wing tip 5b.
  • Arch style kites that use only a single flying line are not traction kites unless steerable by some system of remote control as described above.
  • sled has recently come into popular usage as a name for pneumatic tube framed arch style multi line traction kites, particularly those constructed under US patent 4,708,078 (Legaignoux et al. ) such as the Wipika.
  • kites are not similar to the original Allison/Scott single line sleds because of their different shape, because they are steerable by changing the relative lengths of their various lines and because their primary structure comprises a pneumatic leading edge tube which follows the curve of the arch shape.
  • the original Allison/Scott single line sleds had an unsupported leading edge with chordwise battens as their only structure.
  • traction kite There are some popular styles of traction kite that are not of the arch style. These include: fully bridled conventional traction kites of the ram air foil type or Bean or C-quad style, for example see WO99/59866 ; and framed delta style kites of the sports kite genre or such as the Banshee, D Wing or KiteSki TM designs, for example see US patents 5,366,182 and 4,736,914 .
  • arch style traction kites are: single skin pneumatic tube framed kites such as the Wipika, and other Legaignoux licensee designs, US Patent Number 4,708,078 ; bridleless or reduced bridle ram air inflated foil type kites such as the Arc, described in the applicant's PCT application PCT/NZ01/00019 ; and bridleless ram air inflated kites with flexible leading edge rods such as the FlexiFoil TM style described in US Patent Number 4,129,272 (Jones et al. ).
  • chord line 7 is drawn so as to be parallel to the apparent wind direction when the kite is flying straight.
  • US 4,530,477 discloses flying kites including the bilaterally symmetric wind-bearing surfaces carried by a plain framework consisting of two triangular portions symmetric with respect to the central axis and pivotally interconnected along that axis.
  • An arcuated resilient rod is fixed to those edges of the framework tilted at equal angles to the central axis.
  • Several reinforcing rods may be disposed on the wind bearing surfaces symmetrically with respect to the central axis and across frame members forming the framework.
  • an auxiliary wind including a triangular framework may be fixed to the wind bearing surfaces to be symmetric with respect to the central axis.
  • FR 2 750 885 A1 discloses a kite comprising a supple wall, made of synthetic material, that is defined by an attack edge and a flight edge.
  • the attack edge has an inflatable pad along it, to stiffen it.
  • the cross section of the pad is circular and its diameter varies and increases for the ends towards the centre. Its ends are held in two pockets at the ends of the attack edge.
  • the strings, to control the kite, are fixed to the ends of the pockets.
  • an arch style traction kite including:
  • an arch style traction kite including:
  • flying the traction kite is substantially an arch shape when viewed from a plane normal to the apparent wind direction.
  • the current invention includes one or more changes from the shape of prior art traction kites to a new and different shape. This is essentially a change in the shape of the leading edge 3 as depicted in Figures 8 and 9 .
  • the essential change that best describes this improvement for arch style traction kites is that, by the first way of describing the leading edge shapes of arch style traction kites from above, the leading edge 9 is made to be concave in at least part of the mid span section A when viewed in plan as a development of the kite's form in which all the chord lines of all the sections lie in one plane.
  • leading edge 9 concavity In addition to introducing centre span A leading edge 9 concavity the current invention also envisages an increase in the amount of leading edge 9 convexity in the areas B, C (shown in Figure 11 ) nearest to the wing tips 5a, 5b. However, this is not critical to the invention. At least, there will not be a decrease in the convexity in plan of these portions of the leading edge 9 to less than they would have had in successful prior art designs.
  • Figure 10 shows a developed view of a traction kite with prior art leading edge 3 (dotted) and improved concave leading edge 9.
  • leading edge 9 is no more convex in plan than prior art leading edge 3, but is concave in plan through center span A.
  • Figure 11 shows another developed view of a traction kite with prior art leading edge 3 and improved concave leading edge 9.
  • leading edge 9 is more convex in plan than prior art leading edge 3 in shoulder areas B, C and concave in plan through center span A.
  • Extra shoulder area B, C leading edge 9 convexity to assist in resisting shoulder collapsing without reducing performance in other respects is also advantageous for all arch style traction kites. It is particularly so for ram air inflated arch style traction kites with few or no stiffening battens, especially as a kite gets older and its skins become worn and a little porous
  • a way to construct single skin pneumatic tube framed type arch style traction kites so as to have concave leading edge shapes in the centre span area would be to take the skin of a such a kite that has a convex or straight leading edge, slit it chordwise at one or more centre span places and add in chordwise wedges of skin material with their widest end at the kite's trailing edge and narrowest end to the leading edge. This increases the trailing edge spanwise dimension in the central span area without substantially changing the leading edge dimensions in the spanwise dimension so causing the leading edge shape to become concave in the central span area.
  • a technique would be to slit the skin chordwise in the shoulder area and remove a wedge of skin material tapering in width from zero at the leading edge.
  • a way to construct a double skin with ribs type ram air inflated arch style traction kite with concave leading edge in the central span area and convex leading edges in the tip/shoulder areas is to use wedge shaped panels, wider towards their trailing edge, for the upper and lower skins in the centre span area and wedge shaped panels with their wider end at the leading edge for some upper and lower panels in the tip or shoulder areas.
  • Another way to construct a double skin with ribs type ram air inflated arch style traction kite so as to have a concave leading edge in the centre span area is to increase the angle between the centre-ward chordwise edge of each panel and it's leading edge for some upper and lower skin panels in the kite's centre span area, at the same time decreasing the angles between the centre-ward chordwise edges of these panels and their trailing edges so that the tip side chordwise edge dimension of each panel does not change.
  • FlexiFoil TM type arch style traction kites with shoulder leading edge convexity and centre span leading edge concavity is as for the double skin with ribs type example above but with the further addition of a pre-curved leading edge rod to complement the shape set by the skin panels.
  • an essential feature of this improvement is that it be made adjustable. This can be done by way of, for example, an adjustable length cord applied spanwise to the kite's lower skin at 0 to 40% of chord from the leading edge and preferably at approximately 25% of chord from the leading edge. Shortening this cord increases the amount of concavity of the leading edge in it's vicinity.
  • arch style traction kites are seldom if ever built with sufficient structural rigidity to withstand shoulder collapsing forces except in light winds because the weight and other performance penalties of doing so are unacceptably high.
  • Arch style traction kites generally use quite flexible structures either because more rigid structures weigh more which diminishes performance and are often not as robust or because the internal volume of flexible pneumatic tubes and ram air construction is a useful aid to water relaunchability as compared to more rigid fibre reinforced plastic rods or tubes. Even for arch style traction kites with more rigid structures than are currently usual, this improvement will still be advantageous because it decreases the necessity for rigidity, and hence reduces weight, cost and, often, fragility.
  • the present invention has been particularly described with reference to the invention and application to a traction kite of the general form described in the applicant's PCT/NZ01/00019 . It is however contemplated that the essential concave leading edge feature can be incorporated in ram air inflated kites, single skin pneumatic tube framed kites and bridleless ram air inflated kites with flexible leading edge rods or in kites incorporating a combination of the features of such kites.

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  1. Zugdrachen nach Bogenart mit:
    einer oberen Flügelfläche und einer unteren Flügelfläche, die aus flexiblen Materialien bestehen, wobei die obere und untere Flächen verbunden sind, um eine flexible tragflächenartig geformte Flügelkontur mit einer vorlaufenden Kante (9), einer nachlaufenden Kante (4) und Flügelspitzen (5a, 5b) zu bilden,
    einer Vielzahl von Wänden aus flexiblem Material, die zwischen der oberen und der unteren Fläche und weitgehend parallel zu der Luftströmung über der Flügelkontur angeordnet sind, um eine Vielzahl von Zellen innerhalb der Flügelkontur zu bilden, und
    einer oder mehreren Öffnungen, die optional Ventile haben können und im Wesentlichen an oder in der Nähe eines Strömungsstagnationspunktes der Flügelkontur liegen, so dass Luft eintreten und die Flügelkontur aufblasen kann,
    wobei die vorlaufende Kante (9) in einem mittleren Abschnitt (A) der Flügelkontur konkav ausgebildet ist und in Abschnitten (B, C) in der Nähe der Flügelspitzen (5a, 5b) geradlinig oder konvex, wenn man in Draufsicht schaut und die Flügelkontur in einer horizontalen Ebene liegt.
  2. Zugdrachen nach Bogenart mit:
    einem tragflächenartig geformten Flügel, der als einlagige Fläche ausgebildet ist, die aus einem flexiblen Material besteht und so geformt und ausgebildet ist, dass sie eine vorlaufende Kante (9), eine nachlaufende Kante (4) und Flügelspitzen (5a, 5b) bildet,
    einem Element an der vorlaufenden Kante mit einer aufblasbaren Luftröhre, das sich entlang der vorlaufenden Kante (9) erstreckt, und
    zwei oder mehr Streben, aufblasbar oder anderweitig ausgebildet, die von dem aufblasbaren Element an der vorlaufenden Kante in Sehnenrichtung über die gesamte Sehne des Flügels verlaufen,
    wobei die vorlaufende Kante (9) in einem mittleren Abschnitt (A) des Flügels konkav ausgebildet ist und in Abschnitten (B, C) in der Nähe der Flügelspitzen (5a, 5b) geradlinig oder konvex, wenn man in Draufsicht schaut und der Flügel in einer horizontalen Ebene liegt.
  3. Zugdrachen nach Bogenart gemäß einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei der Flügel im Wesentlichen eine Bogenform besitzt, wenn der Flügel aufgerichtet ist und horizontal nach vorne fliegt und man von einem Punkt im Vorfeld des Flügels schaut.
  4. Zugdrachen nach Bogenart gemäß einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei zumindest die Form des konkaven Abschnitts des Flügels einstellbar ist.
  5. Zugdrachen nach Bogenart gemäß Anspruch 4, wobei eine Schnur mit einstellbarer Länge in Spannrichtung an der unteren Lage des Flügels angeordnet ist, und zwar zwischen 0 und 40 % der Sehne von der vorlaufenden Kante aus, so dass eine Verkürzung dieser Schnur das Ausmaß der Konkavität der vorlaufenden Kante in deren Bereich vergrößert.
  6. Zugdrachen nach Bogenart gemäß Anspruch 5, wobei die Schnur bei etwa 25 % der Sehne angeordnet ist.
  7. Zugdrachen nach Bogenart gemäß einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei der Flügel oder die Flügelkontur der Flügel oder die Fügelkontur eines aufblasbaren Staudruckdrachens, eines einlagigen Drachens mit stabilisierenden Luftröhren, eines aufblasbaren Staudruckdrachens mit flexiblen Stäben an der vorlaufenden Kante oder eines Drachens ist, der eine Kombination der Merkmale von solchen Drachen beinhaltet.
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